Re: storage size pragmas

[Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>]

anthonygair@aol.comremoveme (ANTHONY GAIR) writes:
> For those of you watching my progress with Ada tasks and segmentation faults
> with both bated breath and intrepidation for the next exciting installment.
> 
> Would a large array stored inside a task cause a segmentation fault if no
> storage size pragma is used ?
> 
> the storage size is roughly 10000 * (8 + 8+ 8+ 8+8) array,

If the large array can't be allocated, it *should* cause a
Storage_Error exception (if you're compiling with all checks on).
The exception may not be visible if it occurs within a task.

Add a Storage_Size pragma and see what happens.

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